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April 21, 2003
Vol. 113, Issue No.138
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Contact Kristi Henderson, Jenna Goepfert or Justin Henning at 864-4810 or editor@kansan.com
Young athletes breathe new life into track and field at Relays p.1B
Alan Webb
Self to take coaching job
By Doyle Murphy
dmurphy@kansan.com
Kansan senior sportwriter
Head coaching overall record:
207-105
BILL SELF'S CAREER
The men in charge aren't talking until this afternoon, but when they do, they are expected to announce Illinois' Bill Self as the eighth men's basketball coach at Kansas.
Illinois coach Bill Self makes his way out of the parking garage next to Allen Fieldhouse. Self flew into Lawrence yesterday with interim athletics director Drue Jennings after reportedly agreeing to be the next coach of the Kansas mens basketball team. Self left without speaking to reporters.
Eric Braem/Kansan
Honors: 2000 National Coach of the Year, The Sporting News; 2000 Don Haskins WAC Coach of the Year, 2000 John and Nellie Wooden Coach of the Year; 2000-2002 finalist for Naismith College Coach of the Year.
Kansas will hold a press conference to introduce its men's basketball coach on Monday, April 21st at 1:00 p.m. in the John Hadl Auditorium on the KU campus."
Self, the coach of the Illini for the past three seasons, arrived in Lawrence at 2:30 p.m.yesterday and met with Chancellor Robert Hemenway, interim athletics director Drue Jennings and members of the University of Kansas Athletics Corporation at the Wagnon Student Athlete Center.
SEE SELF ON PAGE 5A
By the time Self emerged from the meeting two and a half hours later, the athletics department had released the following statement: "The University of
Photo contributed by Erica Brittain
Erica Brittain, Wichita junior, is waiting for her boyfriend to return from his yearlong deployment. The couple met at a party in Fall 2001.
Photos by Brandon Baker/Kansan
Letters span war's distance make separation bearable
Bv Lauren Bristow
lbristow@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Erica Brittain is waiting. Waiting for her boyfriend to return home from war. And waiting for his letters to fill her mailbox.
Ruth Schiefelbusch knows this feeling well. She waited for her husband to return home from war more than 60 years ago.
The U.S. Department of Defense estimates more than 300,000 coalition troops are deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. More than 15 million men and women served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, said Theodore Wilson, professor of history.
The relatively young age of those in
combat combined with uncertainties of war led many to seek companionship.
"During World War II, many people didn't know what the future was going to bring and wanted to establish permanent relationships," Wilson said. "Clearly there is something to the notion of quick relationships, quick marriages during wartime."
Although nearly 60 years separate these two wars, love hasn't changed.
Dick Schiefelbusch and Ruth Magee
Dick Schiefelbusch and Ruth Magee met through friends during the autumn of 1939 at Pittsburg Teachers College. He was 21 years old: she was 19.
"We played tennis together before
Comments about the war in Iraq are everywhere — sidewalk graffiti, protesters' signs, bumper stickers, in every newspaper and on television. But American veterans have their own opinions. Tune into KUJH-TV tonight to watch Glen Kappelman, KU graduate and World War II veteran, and Ervin Hodges, KU graduate and Korean and Vietnam wars veteran, tell KUJH-TV reporter Graham Winch how war affected them and how they feel about the current war.
SEE RELATIONSHIPS ON PAGE 8A
Tuition, fees for next year may increase 18 percent
By Lauren Airey
lairey@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The University of Kansas wants to increase tuition by about 18 percent for the next school year.
Provost David Shulenburger told the Board of Regents on Thursday that the University planned to increase tuition and fees $627 per year for Kansas residents taking 15 credit hours each semester. This would be an increase from $3,484 to about $4,100 per year for instate undergraduates. The tuition for nonresidents would increase from $10,686 to $11,313.
Leaders from each of the state's six public universities made 10-minute presentations on their tuition plans. Each university plans to raise its tuition. Fort Hays State University plans to increase its tuition 9 percent, and Kansas State University plans to increase tuition by 20 percent.
The University will present a formal proposal to the Regents in May, and the Regents will vote on the increase in June.
"If we are to achieve Top 25 status, increased tuition, state funding, endowment giving and research grants are essential parts of the strategy." Shulenburger said. "Nothing has changed from the five-year expenditure plan we put forth to the Regents in February of this year."
The University made a five-year plan last year at the request of the Regents.
The Regents approved 25-percent increases for the current school year, with the understanding the revenue would be used for improvements, not routine expenses.
Improvements made this past year include enhancing technology, increasing graduate teaching assistant salaries and hiring new faculty. The money was also used for classroom and library improvements.
Because of state budget cuts, however, the Regents decided in February that the universities could spend tuition revenue as they saw fit.
Shulenburger said all revenue from increased tuition was being used for improvements to the University and not to replace funds lost in the budget cuts.
Jonathan Ng. outgoing student body president, told the Regents that students remained supportive of the University's five-year plan, even though it called for a tuition increase each year.
Ng said students would continue to support the increase as long as money was being used for improvements to the University.
- Edited by Erin Chapman
Queers and Allies' Pride Week accents family
By Henry C. Jackson
cjackson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Members of Queers and Allies want to add a new definition to the word family this week.
"Family is not necessarily a father, a mother and the children," said Sarah Burris, head of Queers and Allies support group. "A family is a group of people who cares enough about a group of people to get together."
Queers and Allies will celebrate Pride Week this week in an effort to come
together, celebrate tolerance and increase education about gay and lesbian issues. The theme of this year's Pride Week is "Focus on the Family."
"It's one of those things where it's our opportunity to expose KU to more diversity." Burris said.
Members of the organization have been planning the event since mid-fall. It is the group's most high-profile event.
Burris, Lawrence junior, said pride week would offer the opportunity to
break down stereotypes of gay and lesbian people presented by the media.
"Situations aren't always going to be easy," Burris said. "We're just focusing on who we are."
Pride Week's activities include lectures on bisexuality and state sodomy laws and a march for gay rights.
"We're committed to educating ourselves and others to the issues we face," said Patrick Ross, Queers and Allies director. "So we've planned a lot of education events. The whole week is an education opportunity."
Ross, Topeka senior, said there were
"It's basically an open invitation to come out and feel comfortable and to show that there's a community here to help queer students succeed at KU," Ross said.
As has become a custom, Pride Week also will feature the 10th annual "Brown Bag Drag," a lunchtime display of cross dressers. Burris said this was the event she looked forward to the most.
"I love the drag show because it brings a group of people together that don't normally come together," she said. "Even
though a lot of our events are really political and we've got a lot of serious things going on this week, this is a thing that's just going to be about having fun."
Ross said he was also looking forward to the drag show, particularly because it brought in people who might not otherwise pay attention to Queers and Allies.
"I think it brings a lot of people because it's the most outrageous event," he said. "Straight people come to see what a drag queen looks like. It's just kind of a celebration of the ludicrous."
— Edited by Anne Mantey
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